The current world champion
Arched neck. Fine throat-latch (mithbah). Broad jibbah. Low placed, large eye. Long fine muzzle. Deep jowls. What’s not to like?
Meanwhile, some people with common sense are ringing the alarm bell.
No black background here. I am not picking on a particular horse, but showing a global trend. The photos are meant for illustration purposes.
Another proud part bred mongrel descendant of Skowronek and Zboj et al.
Lyman: I don’t want to hijack the thread. But I left you a note on your 66 reply Skowronek thread. Independent scientific confirmation of your thesis.
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Bruce Peek
Of course there’s a lot more going on in his pedigree than just Skowronek. One thing I notice is how quickly the generations turned. All of his great-grandparents were born in 1991 or later. In contrast, I have a horse here just 4 years older than the one pictured above, and half of his great-grandparents were foaled in the 1940s. Another of his great-grandparents was foaled in 1958, one in 1965, one in 1970, and the youngest in 1985. My horse’s dam was foaled in 1990, making her older than all of the great-grandparents of the horse pictured here. The rapid turnover of generations suggests focused selection.
Excellent example of how “new” this Arabian is RJ. Thanks for that.
There we go again Lyman, blaming Skowronek even though Nazeer and other RAS horses make up a bigger portion of the pedigree than Skowronek. This just shows selective breeding that is out of focus.
Good Morning everyone.
The “Horseyhooves” article that is hyperlinked to the blog is for me personally, not a reliable source of information that I would want to cite or embrace. I am surprised to find it here, in a scholarly place of information on the desert Arabian horse. It’s sort of like going to the Library of Congress to do research and finding a stack of People Magazines on the shelf. Ugh. It’s cheap.
El Rey Magnum RCF, pictured as a foal, has matured. I wanted to post a current photo but am not able. A clean and dry head but not as “extreme” as a foal.
El Rey Magnum RCF is sired by a stallion named BASILIO CS and out of a mare named CIRQUE DU SOLEIL BF. He was bred by Jack and Elizabeth Milam of Regency Cove Farm in Arizona, hence the “RCF” appended to his name. He is now owned by Orrion Farm, owned by Harold & Dolly Orr.
Anyway, as R.J. Cadranell has explained, if you go far back in his pedigree, there are many wonderful stories buried in there. For example, in tail female, he traces to *Urfah, an 1898 Saqlawi al-Abd mare imported by Homer Davenport in 1906. The tail female line of El Rey Magnum’s sire, Basilio, goes back to Dajania, one of the mares purchased in the desert by the Blunts and imported to Crabbet Park. On the sire side of the pedigree, I found multiple lines to Asil horses like Gulastra, Gulnare, Guemara, Nedjme, *Wadduda, Naomi, Stambul, El Bulad, Alla Amarward, *Urfah, *Letan to name only a few names, all of whom are ancestral elements that are celebrated on this blog. And the best that this blog can do is “part bred mongrel”?
Really?
In these strange days that have turned our world upside down and inside out, I have had to stare down the fragility of my own life and come to grips with all the missed opportunities, the words that I can’t take back, the people I could have helped and didn’t, the difference that I could have made in this world and the life that I could have lived in service to others and didn’t…gosh, we have had so much time alone, in isolation, to wrestle with all the demons that our previous busy lives protected us from. As we move forward, past COVID-19, our worlds, impacted by the virus, will no longer be the same. The economic impact of the Corona Virus will have an impact on the horse world. Exactly what that impact will be, not sure, but the Arabian horse market was not that great going into the pandemic and with reduced incomes for all and the deep financial hole we need to dig out of plus the fear of a 2nd wave of the virus, how can our Arabian horse world really be the same, economically, there will be less money for horses. I worry for all breeds of horses and the owners who may have been hanging on by a thread going into the pandemic and now, may be at a point of serious crisis. This thought keeps me up at night. I know that everyone handles anxiety, fear and worry differently and hoping that this blog was just an example of someone trying to deal but jeez, do you really have to really write something like this, at this time in our history?
Just a correction to my reply regarding Orrion Farm (OFW prefix)
Orrion Farm was started by Harold and Dolly Orr 40 years ago but the farm has been owned by Steve and Christina Poore, since 2016.
Hi Edouard, back on April 15th, you posted about your new colt
“This morning Lyman Doyle told me that young Pippa had delivered her first foal, a large, strong colt by Tamaam DE.”
In the same post, you said:
“This is my first Ma’naqi Sbayli foal, and I certainly hope not the last. How I love this strain.”
If you go to El Rey Magnum’s pedigree and follow the tail female line to Rhua, a mare breed by Homer Daveport, she is sired by Haleb, a horse bred by the Gomussa and imported by Daveport. He is of the same strain that you love. His influence is part of El REy Magnum’s genetic fiber.
Just wanted to point that out to you,
Ralph
This horse is deformed, Ralph.
Frank McCoy of McCoy’s Arabians in Chino, California once said something to the effect of when looking at other people’s horses, look for that one redeeming feature (every horse has one) and when you do, focus on that one quality, to the exclusion of everything else.
Beautiful dark eyes.